On Thu, 2016-01-28 at 19:07 +0000, KY Srinivasan wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Olaf Hering [mailto:olaf@xxxxxxxxx] > > Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2016 7:56 AM > > To: KY Srinivasan <kys@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Cc: gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; > > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; ohering@xxxxxxxx; > > jbottomley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; hch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; > > linux-scsi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; > > apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; vkuznets@xxxxxxxxxx; jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx; > > martin.petersen@xxxxxxxxxx; hare@xxxxxxx > > Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] scsi: storvsc: Fix a build issue reported > > by kbuild test > > robot > > > > On Wed, Jan 27, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote: > > > > > + depends on SCSI_FC_ATTRS > > > > I think 'depends' instead of 'select' will cause HYPERV_STORAGE to > > disapepar during make oldconfig if SCSI_FC_ATTRS was not set > > before. > > Not sure what the policy of 'depends' vs. 'select' actually is. > > If > > SCSI_FC_ATTRS is supposed to be a library kind of thing then > > 'select' > > might be the correct way. > > The current build issue is because the Hyper-V storage is configured > to be built with > the kernel while the SCSI_FC_AATRS is configured as a module. This > patch fixes that issue. > I too am not sure what the policy of using "depends" vs " select" is. > James, what would be your recommendation here. Oh, you don't care if FC_ATTRS are enabled, but if they are you need to exclude the case where storvsc is built in but FC_ATTRS is a module? This is the accepted way of doing it: depends on m || SCSI_FC_ATTRS != m James _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
